'To become aware of and to integrate the shadow into consciousness is often a difficult, and sometimes heroic endeavor. But failure to do so can create chaos in one’s life” as the shadow self starts to predominate over emotional states, thoughts and behaviors in the conscious. Jung was concerned with integrating all these subconscious layers with the goal of 'becoming a single, homogeneous being” a process he called individuation which we could also therefore translate as…‘self-realization’.  

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